RIM’s use of BBM Trademark Challenged

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Research in Motion is in news again and like most of you might have guessed, it is in news because of a dispute again. This time, RIM is being sued by a Canadian company by the name of BBM Canada, which claims that RIM has no legal right over the usage of term BBM(BlackBerry Messenger) as it is a registered trademark of the company. BBM Canada has not commented on the matter officially, but some sources are reporting that it is ready for settlement.

Jim MacLeod, CEO of BBM Canada has said that their company wants Research in Motion to stop advertising the name BBM as it is a trademark of their company. His company is basically a Canada based which measures radio and television audiences. It provides its services only in Canada and hasn’t got any office in other parts of the world.bbm mast 300x176 RIMs use of BBM Trademark Challenged

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Nokia Lumia 800 Might Come in White or Yellow

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Cyan and Magenta were a good start, but Nokia hasn’t finished plucking eye-catching colors for its smartphone flagship. Alongside a not-exactly-unexpected white model, these leaked renders sugge...
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GoDaddy Drops Support for SOPA

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Due to boycott by many of its customers, GoDaddy has dropped its support for SOPA(Stop Online Piracy Act). GoDaddy was criticized a lot on social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter because of its decision to support SOPA. And as a result, customers started shifting to other domain providers which forced the domain giant to change its decision. Official website of GoDaddy stated,”Go Daddy is no longer supporting SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act” currently working its way through U.S. Congress. Go Daddy has always fought to preserve the intellectual property rights of third parties, and will continue to do so in the future.”

Warren Adelman, Go Daddy’s newly appointed CEO, said, “Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation – but we can clearly do better.” He further added that,”It’s very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it.”no godaddy 455x430 300x283 GoDaddy Drops Support for SOPA

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A Jingle bells playing Google Doodle celebrates “Happy Holidays”

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It’s time for Christmas and Google has come up with an interactive doodle on the eve of Christmas, playing the celebration tune of ‘jingle Bells’. Making the ‘Happy Holidays...
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Twitter releases its Android SMS encryption tool

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The last time that I was talking about Twitter buying an Android security firm, Whisper Systems was just a month back. This is where I had published about it.

Now Twitter has just come up with a technology for encrypting text messages on Android device. The TextSecure software, which Twitter published to code repository Github on Tuesday, lets people add encryption to all sent and received texts from their Android phone, and can encrypt texts for transmission if they are being sent to another TextSecure user.

“We’re excited to announce the open-source release of TextSecure, our secure text-messaging client for Android, which Twitter acquired when we joined their team last month,” Whisper Systems’s development team wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. “We’ve always been interested in the ability for individuals and organisations to communicate freely and securely.

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Mozilla-Google Partnership Extends for 3 more years

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Google and Mozilla have signed a new agreement which will extend Google’s role as default search provider in Mozilla Firefox. This news has come in the middle of rumors about the possible parting of ways for both the companies. Google is one of the main sources of revenue of Mozilla and has played the role of default search provider since the beginning of Firefox project. This deal will be valid for next three years.

The official website of Mozilla states,”We’re pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google. This new agreement extends our long term search relationship with Google for at least three additional years.”Google Firefox Logo 300x125 Mozilla Google Partnership Extends for 3 more years

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AT&T Withdraws from the Bid for T-Mobile

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AT&T is now out from the race for buying Deutsche Telekom’s American mobile division T-mobile. Surprisingly, AT&T has not dropped its idea because of some competitor or rival, but due to the opposition by regulators in the United States. AT&T was a bit too optimistic about this deal. We can say so because AT&T’s Chief Executive Officer was promoting the deal on a TV channel. This decision by AT&T has not been welcomed by Deutsche Telekom as the German company will now have to look for some other partner in the United States.

According to us, there was a very little chance for AT&T to buy T-mobile as the regulators were very skeptical about this deal from the very beginning. Still, AT&T took risk and well, it paid the price for this tactless business practice.11x0320n81aatt 300x225 AT&T Withdraws from the Bid for T Mobile

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